Framestore Celebrates 12 VES Award Nominations

Framestore is the proud recipient of 12 Visual Effects Society (VES) Award nominations for work across six distinctive film and episodic titles.

The titles run the gamut of Framestore’s boundary-pushing skillset, from photoreal sci-fi to stylised storybook fantasy and through to horror, action and period drama.

Three titles featuring the creative studio’s work - The Midnight Sky, Jingle Jangle and Project Power - are in the running for the coveted ‘Outstanding Visual Effects in a Photoreal Feature’ award, while Netflix sci-fi actioner Project Power is joint leader in terms of overall feature film nominations.

Framestore CEO Sir William Sargent, said: “Framestore’s VES nominations showcase a striking and varied body of work, from photoreal creatures and distinctive character animation through to world building that’s equally convincing whether set in the far reaches of space, 1950s America or 1980s Britain. The quality of the work shows how we’re continuing to blur the boundaries between film and episodic, and is all the more impressive considering so much of it was delivered while working from home." 

For a snapshot of our VES-nominated work click HERE. The full list of Framestore’s VES nominations is as follows: 

Nominations: Outstanding Visual Effects in a Photoreal Feature

JINGLE JANGLE: A CHRISTMAS JOURNEY (Eric Guaglione, Carlos Monzon) 

PROJECT POWER (Ivan Moran, Joao Sita, Matthew Twyford)

THE MIDNIGHT SKY (Chris Lawrence, Max Solomon)

Outstanding Visual Effects in a Photoreal Episode

CLOVECRAFT COUNTRY; Jig-A-Bobo

TIMMY FAILURE (Nicolas Chevallier)

Outstanding Supporting Visual Effects in a Photoreal Episode

THE CROWN; Gold Stick (Andrew Scrase)

Outstanding Animated Character in a Photoreal Feature

JINGLE JANGLE: A CHRISTMAS JOURNEY; Don Juan Diego (Eric Guaglione, Shuchi Singhal, Adrien Annesley, Mahmoud Ellithy)

Outstanding Animated Character in an Episode or Real-Time Project

THE CROWN; The Balmoral test; Imperial Stag (Ahmed Gharraph, Ross Burgess, Gabriela Ruch Salmeron, Joel Best)

TIMMY FAILURE; Mistakes Were Made; Total (Maxime Masse, Hennadii Prykhodko, Luc Girard, Sophie Burie)

Outstanding Model in a Photoreal or Animated Project

THE MIDNIGHT SKY; Aether (Balthazart, Jonathan Opgenhaffen, John-Peter Li, Simon Aluze)

Outstanding Effects Simulations in a Photoreal Feature

PROJECT POWER (Yin Lai Jimmy Leung, Jonathan Lyddon-Towl, Pierpaolo Navarini, Michelle Lee)

Outstanding Compositing in a Feature

PROJECT POWER (Russell Horth, Matthew Patience, Julien Rousseau)  

The VES Award nominations follow news that The Midnight Sky has been shortlisted for the VFX Oscar; The Midnight Sky, The Secret Garden, Wonder Woman 1984 and Mulan have been selected for BAFTA’s ‘Special Visual Effects’ longlist and that The Midnight Sky was also nominated for the Hollywood Critics Association ‘Best Visual Effects’ accolade.